Contents
-BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By Robert Herrick (15911674)
To his Conscience
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CAN I not sin, but thou wilt be | |
My private protonotary? 1 | |
Can I not woo thee to pass by | |
A short and sweet iniquity? | |
I’ll cast a mist and cloud upon | 5 |
My delicate transgression, | |
So utter dark as that no eye | |
Shall see the hugg’d impiety; | |
Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please | |
And wind all other witnesses; | 10 |
And wilt not thou with gold be ti’d | |
To lay thy pen and ink aside? | |
It will not be. And, therefore, now, | |
For times to come I’ll make this vow, | |
From aberrations to live free; | 15 |
So I’ll not fear the Judge or thee. | |